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Automation engine to build, test and ship any codebase. Runs locally, in CI, or directly in the cloud

33 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 3 stories, 30 comments · first 2022-03-30 · latest 2026-10-25

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  1. …compared to Dagger's, so I personally prefer the middleman, but that is no longer the case. See: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/pull/11856
  2. …to keep CI/CD working was not the dream. re: the cloud specifically see these GitHub issues: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/6486 https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/8004 Basically if you want consistently fast cached builds…
  3. And a very cool CI toolkit https://github.com/dagger/dagger (Apache 2) Link to the DI mentioned by the parent comment https://github.com/google/dagger (also Apache 2)
  4. …the time to share all this feedback, and sorry again that your experience didn't work out. [1] https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/6736
    comment by shykes · 2025-07-24 · in Using Radicle CI
  5. …for devops, and can pipe first class dagger objects like services and containers to enable things like github.com/dagger/dagger/modules/wolfi@v0.16.2 | container | with-exec ls /etc/ | stdout What's interesting here is that the first line…
  6. …application. > Who is it for? > A developer wishing your CI pipelines were code instead of YAML https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/0620b658242fdf62c872c6... Edit: This functionality/interaction with the dagger engine still exists today,…
    comment by randomtechguy · 2025-03-27 · in Dagger: A shell for the container age
  7. …it's derived from the 'apko' build tool created by the folks at Chainguard. https://daggerverse.dev/mod/github.com/dagger/dagger/modules... And here's a Dagger Shell command for building a container using that module:…
    comment by shykes · 2025-03-27 · in Dagger: A shell for the container age
  8. mise ( https://mise.jdx.dev/ ) and dagger ( https://github.com/dagger/dagger ) seem like nice candidates too! Mise can install all your deps, and run tasks
    comment by oulipo · 2025-03-20 · in The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
  9. I wanted to try dagger to solve some of these issues ( https://github.com/dagger/dagger ) anyone has feedback on it?
    comment by oulipo · 2025-03-20 · in The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
  10. uh-huh: https://github.com/earthly/earthly/blob/v0.8.15/LICENSE (MPLv2, just like TF used to be) https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/v0.15.2/LICENSE (Apache 2)
    comment by mdaniel · 2025-01-15 · in The DevOps Engineer's Handbook
  11. …of this as "The JavaScript Framework Lifecycle") For example, this sure does look like Dagger < https://github.com/dagger/dagger#what-is-dagger > in its use of golang-as-ci < https://docs.dagger.io/quickstart/daggerize#construct-a-pipe...…
  12. Looks like Dagger has a Rust SDK [0]! Going to give it a try. [0] https://github.com/dagger/dagger/tree/main/sdk/rust
    comment by openquery · 2024-11-16 · in Dagger 0.14
  13. …but while digging up an example, it seems that dagger doesn't make use of the functions yet < https://github.com/dagger/dagger/tree/v0.10.2/ci#readme > which is made worse by the perpetual reference to them as their internal codename of…
  14. …bazillion GitHub Actions out in the world, not the very least of which your GHA pipelines use some https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/v0.10.2/.github/workfl... https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/v0.10.2/.github/workfl... so…
  15. Since there are a plethora of dagger projects, lazyweb: https://github.com/dagger/dagger#readme They also recently released their "github actions" replacement < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39550431 > but holy hell their…
  16. …as a way to bootstrap the Dagger Engine. You can read more about the Dagger architecture here: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/main/core/docs/d7yxc-o... As you can see from our docs ( https://docs.dagger.io/759201/gitlab-google-cloud/…
    comment by marcosnils · 2023-11-24 · in Shellcheck finds bugs in your shell scripts
  17. …non-Zenith Dagger [2] (though the terminology is confusing). [1] https://docs.dagger.io/zenith/ [2] https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/5993
    comment by Nezteb · 2023-11-21 · in Streamlining CI/CD Pipelines with Code
  18. …is: "it's complicated" :) There's a detailed explanation of the Dagger Engine architecture here: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/3595 To quote relevant parts: > The engine is made of 2 parts: an API router, and a runner. > - The…
  19. …our own github workflow for testing the Python SDK (you can look around for other workflows): https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/main/.github/workflows... Note that the word "dagger" doesn't even appear, since Dagger is embedded as a…
  20. …Github Actions job we use to test the Dagger Python SDK. It executes a custom tool written in Go. h https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/bd75d17f9625f837d7a2f9...
  21. Dagger is Apache 2, no signup required: https://github.com/dagger/dagger#readme I struggle to think of what I would need a SaaS service to run BuildKit for me unless they're trying to take on GitHub Actions's compute side or whatever
  22. …on releasing! What are the key differences between this and something like Dagger[1]? --- [1]: https://github.com/dagger/dagger
  23. …The (unfortunately named) Dagger is also an entry into that space: https://github.com/dagger/dagger#readme (Apache 2)
    comment by mdaniel · 2022-06-13 · in GitHub actions is down
  24. …Then you compose declaratively in cue. Here is an example of a package to deploy to netlify: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/tree/main/pkg/universe.dagg...
  25. …4d7d2cbe1ae9d6c807ddfcdacb7feb/dagger.json [0] https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Main/issues/3460 [1] https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/1946#issuecomment-10...
  26. Another *monster* difference is that Dagger is (at least currently) Apache 2: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/blob/v0.2.4/LICENSE but Earthly went with BSL: https://github.com/earthly/earthly/blob/v0.6.12/LICENSE That means I'm more…
  27. …primitives (wait for an action; terminate; etc.) This is discussed in the following issues: - https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/1337 - https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/1249 - https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/1248 > Not…
  28. Thank you for the feedback! I referenced it in an issue here: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues/1946
  29. Could you share more details please ? It would be awesome to open an issue on dagger repo : https://github.com/dagger/dagger/issues . Thanks :)
    comment by zefrvtgevtrb · 2022-03-30 · in Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines
  30. Another starting point: https://github.com/dagger/dagger/tree/main/ci
    comment by KingEllis · 2022-03-30 · in Dagger: a new way to build CI/CD pipelines